Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation
Historical FunderChicago, Illinois · EIN 36-2167943 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$3.3M
Organizations funded64
Typical grant$50,000
Total assets$65.3M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $40,000 and $60,000.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | ROBERT N DILEONARDI |
|---|---|
| Address | 200 W MADISON ST 300, CHICAGO IL 60606 |
| Phone | 3122141521 |
| Form and materials | GRANTS MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA THE ONLINE GRANTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. ALL GRANT REQUESTS MUST HAVE MEASURABLE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES AND SERVE THE MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED. |
| Deadlines | GRANTS ARE DISBURSED FOUR TIMES A YEAR. SEE WEBSITE FOR SUBMISSION DEADLINES. |
| Restrictions | MUST BE ORGANIZATION EXEMPT FROM INCOME TAX UNDER 501(C)(3) AND DESIGNATED AS PUBLIC CHARITY UNDER 509(A)(1) OR 509(A)(2). |
Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
1% of grants went outside Illinois.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights | Chicago, IL | To provide education and training on healthcare access to medically underserved individuals and health providers in cook, will, lake, and… | $100,000 |
| Shriver Center on Poverty Law | Chicago, IL | To support the shriver centers training, technical assistance, education, and outreach efforts to facilitate healthcare enrollment and… | $100,000 |
| The Chicago Community Foundation | Chicago, IL | Funding for a pooled fund that provides core grants and special initiative grants to support people who are medically underserved. | $100,000 |
| The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence | Chicago, IL | To improve the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, advocacy, & connecting community with providers. | $100,000 |
| Refugeeone | Chicago, IL | General operating support for this agency that supports some of our communitys most vulnerable residents. | $89,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | Chicago, IL | To support the salary of an advanced practice nurse who provides comprehensive, compassionate sexual and reproductive health care at ppils… | $80,000 |
| Equal Hope | Chicago, IL | An education and nurse navigation program aimed at improving diagnostic follow-up and comprehensive cancer care for women undergoing… | $75,000 |
| Health & Medicine Policy Research Group | Chicago, IL | To support the schweitzer fellows program and fellows for life initiative, which work to enhance health and well-being in underserved… | $75,000 |
| Community Health Partnership of Illinois | Chicago, IL | To engage a family medicine nurse practitioner to expand primary care access to medically vulnerable adults and children in kane and… | $70,000 |
| Connections for the Homeless | Evanston, IL | Onsite healthcare services in north suburban cook county to improve health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. | $70,000 |
| Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago | Chicago, IL | To support the salary of the health services case manager who will assist medically underserved individuals with their medical and mental… | $70,000 |
| Nourishing Hope | Chicago, IL | Free, clinical mental health counseling to individuals and couples in chicago. this program is essential to our holistic approach to… | $65,000 |
| Beds Plus Inc | Lagrange, IL | To support the salary of a medical respite manager and to purchase medical equipment for this agency that serves homeless individuals in… | $60,000 |
| Deborah's Place | Chicago, IL | Essential health services for unhoused women in chicago | $60,000 |
| Infant Welfare Society of Chicago | Chicago, IL | To provide children and families in need with medical, dental and behavioral health care, plus child development, and social support… | $60,000 |
| Legal Council for Health Justice | Chicago, IL | To protect and defend access to healthcare, as a co-lead of protect our care - illinois and other statewide advocacy coalitions. | $60,000 |
| Vivery Community | Chicago, IL | An at-home food delivery program in partnership with sinai chicago that provides consistent access to medically-tailored food for… | $60,000 |
| Wings Program Inc | Palatine, IL | The hospital program provides consultations and life-saving interventions to domestic violence survivors on-site at four area hospitals as… | $60,000 |
| Healthcare Alternative Systems Inc | Chicago, IL | Has will expand in-person hours of our current nurse practitioner to include psychiatric evaluations, assessments, and medication… | $56,000 |
| Alliancechicago | Chicago, IL | The community kitchen collaborative learning collaborative model will build practical knowledge and skills that can be applied… | $55,000 |
| Housing Forward | Maywood, IL | To support the salary and benefits of a nurse who assesses all clients in interim housing for health care needs and assesses clients in our… | $55,000 |
| Pillars Community Health | Countryside, IL | The loft at eight corners provides mental health wellness services and education to teens and adolescents. | $55,000 |
| Alliancechicago | Chicago, IL | Ican! will accelerate its efforts to build a highly skilled community health and social service provider workforce that delivers and… | $50,000 |
| Anew Building Beyond Violence and Abuse | Homewood, IL | Services for families experiencing domestic violence, as well as prevention and outreach services. | $50,000 |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | Chicago, IL | For outreach to people impacted by homelessness at shelters, schools, events, and tent cities. services include health and public benefits… | $50,000 |
| Children's Research Triangle Inc | Chicago, IL | For the trauma treatment program which eliminates barriers to mental health treatment for medically underserved children and families by… | $50,000 |
| Community Development Institute | Chicago, IL | To establish a school social worker position to provide mental health services to students at this alternative high school on chicagos… | $50,000 |
| Enlace Chicago | Chicago, IL | A community health worker initiative that teaches health literacy, connects people to insurance coverage, and helps them access healthcare… | $50,000 |
| Erie Family Health Centers | Chicago, IL | Advancingpractice is a one-year fellowship program that prepares adult, family and pediatric nurse practitioners and midwives to embark on… | $50,000 |
| Everthrive Illinois | Chicago, IL | To address the challenges that providers, childbearing people, and families face in delivering and receiving high-quality care through… | $50,000 |
| Facing Forward to End Homelessness | Chicago, IL | Individualized case management to support housing stability, improve health, and increase self-sufficiency. | $50,000 |
| Gads Hill Center | Chicago, IL | Healthy minds, healthy schools is a trauma-informed approach to school-based mental health care that equips students, parents and staff… | $50,000 |
| Healing to Action | Chicago, IL | Through a powerful network of survivor-leaders healing to action will strengthen community-based, peer-to-peer responses to gender-based… | $50,000 |
| Housing Opportunities for Women | Chicago, IL | Hows health team provides intensive case management for clients living with HIV or AIDS and health education services to medically complex… | $50,000 |
| Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics | Lemont, IL | This project delivers initiatives and essential resources to promote the sustainability of free and charitable clinics, which provide a… | $50,000 |
| Impact Behavioral Health Partners | Evanston, IL | To expand the clinical community referral program, which provides low-barrier, accessible mental health, case management, and employment… | $50,000 |
| Marillac St Vincent Family Services | Chicago, IL | To support doula, home visiting, and early childhood education programs. | $50,000 |
| North Side Housing & Supportive Services | Chicago, IL | Personalized, on-site health services for clients experiencing homelessness. | $50,000 |
| Pcc Community Wellness Center | Oak Park, IL | To expand birthing choices for underserved women in chicago and increase our midwife staffing. | $50,000 |
| Refugeeone | Chicago, IL | Comprehensive preventative care and oral health education | $50,000 |
| Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science | North Chicago, IL | A free mobile health program that bringing vaccinations, wellness screenings, physicals, point-of-care testing, and other services and… | $50,000 |
| Sinai Health System | Chicago, IL | Domestic violence (dv) support, resources, and referrals for people with physical, mental, and/or intellectual disabilitieswho face a… | $50,000 |
| South Suburban Pads | Country Club Hills, IL | Healthcare case management and access to healthcare to improve the health of homeless or formerly homeless individuals. | $50,000 |
| The Harbour Inc | Park Ridge, IL | To address the health and wellness needs of homeless youth ages 12-24 who reside in the harbours emergency and transitional housing… | $50,000 |
| The Night Ministry | Chicago, IL | The outreach and health ministry (ohm) program provides basic health care and support services to people throughout chicago. ohm is… | $50,000 |
| Youth Guidance | Chicago, IL | Trauma-Informed group counseling and clinical mentoring that brings positive behavioral interventions and support to girls and young women… | $50,000 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | Chicago, IL | For an electronic health records system to improve client access, enhance administrative efficiency, and free up valuable time and effort… | $42,000 |
| Alianza Americas | Chicago, IL | To provide accessible mental health care and support nonprofit caregivers through well-being workshops. | $40,000 |
| Brave Space Alliance | Chicago, IL | To support the launch our new behavioral health program in fall 2024, and to grow the program in 2025. | $40,000 |
| Chicago Children's Advocacy Center | Chicago, IL | Trauma-Informed, community-based therapy for children and families in underserved neighborhoods in chicago. | $40,000 |
| Illinois Unidos | Chicgo, IL | To engage hard to reach members of the community in the healthcare system. | $40,000 |
| Lightways Hospice and Serious Illness Care | Joliet, IL | For in-home pediatric palliative care in cook county. | $40,000 |
| Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation | Chicago, IL | Towards the salary of a nurse whose key duties include case management, patient navigation, and health education for uninsured patients. | $40,000 |
| Options for Youth | Chicago, IL | For the subsequent pregnancy program which works with teen mothers who have had one child before the age of 18, to help them prevent a… | $40,000 |
| Un Nuevo Despertar - a New Awakening NFP | Chicago, IL | Intervention, prevention, counseling, training, and education to address emotional and physical needs. | $40,000 |
| Crisis Center for South Suburbia | Tinley Park, IL | To support the community counseling program, in which highly trained counselors provide trauma-informed care to adults and children who are… | $30,000 |
| Tri City Health Partnership | St Charles, IL | General operating support for this free and charitable health clinic which seeks to provide access to free quality health care to… | $30,000 |
| Antioch Area Healthcare Accessibility Alliance | Antioch, IL | To improve health outcomes for underserved individuals across northwestern lake county. | $25,000 |
| Northwestern Settlement | Chicago, IL | Towards the salary of a bilingual, licensed clinical professional therapist who provides mental health services to children from low-income… | $25,000 |
| Trilogy Inc | Chicago, IL | To launch a program that will provide evidence-based mental health services for children, youth, and families. | $25,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 64 grants to organizations.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3,324,209 | 64 |
| 2023 | $3,226,409 | 71 |
| 2022 | $3,116,650 | 75 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Mar 5, 2026 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202640649349100514
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 36-2167943
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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